The Creation of Man

The Creation of Man


1.
The gods and the spirits
of the Sacred Mountain
created man.

He was made of all rains, springs, rivers,
ponds, black clouds, and sky.

His feet are made of earth
and his legs of lightning.
White shells form his knees,
and his body is white and yellow corn;

his flesh is daybreak,
his hair darkness,
his eyes are of the sun.

White corn forms his teeth,
black corn his eyebrows
and red coral beads his nose.

His tears are of rain,
his tongue of straight lightning,
and his voice of thunder.

His heart is obsidian;
the little whirlwind keeps his nerves in motion,
and his movement is the air.

The name of this new kind of being was
"Created from Everything."

2.
The Sower

I hold pollen of Dawn
in my hand,
with it I sow the night;
over the mountain
spring the first, pale blades
of the new day.


Navajo Songs